"That will depend upon if bringing us back into phase returns you to your true form. It's premature to speculate. The two situations might not even be related." It was highly unlikely they weren't related in some way but not impossible. He touched her then, a very brief caress of hand down her hair. He recalled she liked that. "Should we come back to phase and find you still as you are, I will put a science team at your disposal to help you reverse the effects. I take no pleasure in seeing you caged in any way."

He drew closer and looked at the display over her shoulder, his lips slightly pursed. "Hmm. I think I know a certain engineer that has some explaining to do. This should have been attended at the time it happened. It's outside of allowances for this vessel, particularly operating so closely to the wormhole. Perhaps the wormhole aliens exploited it, although that doesn't explain your presence here."